{"id":81589,"date":"2025-08-26T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=81589"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:58:00","slug":"mohammeds-century-beats-down-black-caps-baker-bamboozles-nkowankowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=81589","title":{"rendered":"Mohammed&#8217;s century beats down Black Caps, Baker bamboozles Nkowankowa"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33508\" style=\"width: 397px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33508\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Luka-Heinlein-Merensky-Krieket-397x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Ankia Botha.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Muaaz Mohammed<\/strong>, of <strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Piet Potgieter,<\/strong> in Mokopane, scored the first century of the 2025 <strong>Limpopo Super League<\/strong> on Saturday to guide his side to victory over <strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Ben Vorster<\/strong>&#8216;s <em><strong>Black Caps<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Relive all the Schools Cricket action on <strong>SuperSport Schools &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/supersportschools\">(www.supersportschools.com)<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Playing at the Black Caps&#8217; <strong>Premier Park Oval<\/strong>, <em><strong>Piet Pot<\/strong><\/em>, as they are more commonly known, was sent in to bat. At first, it seemed that it was going to be a tough slog for the visitors, with <strong>Rivoningo Chauke<\/strong> and <strong>Khulani Mnisi<\/strong> doing early damage with the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Chauke was the home team&#8217;s most successful bowler, taking 4\/38 from his 10 overs, while Mnisi finished with 3\/57. Mohammed, who made the provincial team last year, relied on his experience to counteract the Ben Vorster attack.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the fight to them, he struck 12 fours and five sixes, racing to an aggressive 103 from only 83 balls before he was dismissed by Chauke.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rayaan Malji<\/strong> (53) and <strong>Frederik Botes<\/strong> (45) provided strong support, which helped the visitors to an intimidating total of 293 from their 50 overs.<\/p>\n<p>In reply, <strong>Sontag Ramatsoma<\/strong> batted well for Ben Vorster. His 63 runs gave the side from Tzaneen hope, while Mnisi, after his solid bowling performance weighed in with 28<\/p>\n<p>The trio of Malji, Botes and Mohammed having caused the Black Caps pain with their bats then hurt them with the ball. Malji knocked over 3\/34, Botes 2\/38, and Mohammed 2\/43 as Ben Vorster was bowled out for 224, 69 runs less than Piet Pot&#8217;s tally.<\/p>\n<p>Also in Tzaneen, <strong>Merenksy Landbou Akademie<\/strong> crushed <strong>Nkowankowa Hub<\/strong> by 189 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Captain <strong>Luka Heinlein<\/strong> and star top-order batsman, <strong>Rinaldo Bornman<\/strong>, laid a solid foundation as the <em><strong>Plasies<\/strong><\/em>, batting first, totalled 248 in their 50 overs. Heinlein top-scored with 56, while Bornman contributed 51.<\/p>\n<p>The day, though, belonged to left-arm spinner, <strong>Timothy Baker<\/strong>. Over the past two years, he&#8217;s proved himself to be Merensky&#8217;s main strike bowler and he showed his prowess once again by spinning a web around the Nkowankowa batsmen.<\/p>\n<p>Baker&#8217;s decisive contribution was 5\/29, while Heinlein snared three wickets cheaply, which led to the visitors sliding to just 59 all out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summarised scorecards\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Piet Potgieter 293\/10 <\/strong>(Muaaz Mohammed 103, Rayaan Malji 53, Frederik Botes 45; Rivoningo Chauke 4\/38, Khulani Mnisi 3\/57, Njabulo Maseko 2\/42);\u00a0<strong>Ben Vorster 224\/10 <\/strong>(Sontag Ramatsoma 63, Khulani Mnisi 28; Rayaan Malji 3\/34, Frederick Botes 2\/38, Muaaz Mohammed 2\/43).\u00a0<strong>Ho\u00ebrskool Piet Potgieter won by 69 runs.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Merensky Landbou Akademie 248\/10 <\/strong>(Luka Heinlein 56, Rinaldo Bornman 51, Cashan Jacobsz 29*, Xander Schoeman 26, Extras 24; Prosperity Machabe 2\/48, Allen Shivuri 2\/50, Vinani Mkhawani 2\/62);\u00a0<strong>Nkowankowa Hub 59\/10 <\/strong>(Javulike Chavala 19; Timothy Baker 5\/29, Luka Heinlein 3\/13).\u00a0<strong>Merensky Landbou Akademie won by 189 runs<\/strong><strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muaaz Mohammed, of Ho\u00ebrskool Piet Potgieter, in Mokopane, scored the first century of the 2025 Limpopo Super League on Saturday to guide his side to victory over Ho\u00ebrskool Ben Vorster&#8216;s Black Caps. Relive all the Schools Cricket action on SuperSport Schools &#8211; (www.supersportschools.com)\u00a0 Playing at the Black Caps&#8217; Premier Park Oval, Piet Pot, as they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":33508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}